SOVIET UNION: The Jammers

Ever since the cold war began, the
Soviet Union has been one of the world's leading broadcasters of radio
propaganda. Even today, Moscow beams some 1,900 hours of radio per week
at foreign audiences in more than 80 languages. Yet the Russians have
always been exceedingly sensitive to foreign broadcasts beamed at them
in return, and through the years they have traditionally jammed such
broadcasts electronically.

Now, it turns out, they are worried about a new threat: the advent of
satellite-transmitted television broadcasting. In a letter to U.N.
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim last...